Description

TQ 3080 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER CRAVEN STREET, WC2
83/21
9.1.70 No. 38

G.V. II

Terraced town house. c.1731 with c.1792 alterations. Brown brick with
red brick window dressings, channelled stucco ground floor, slate roof.
4 storeys (top floor c.1792 heightening). C.19 dormered mansard and
basement. 3 windows wide. Closet wing plan. Elliptical arched doorway
to left in plain stucco surround, recessed panelled door and patterned
fanlight. Recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged red brick
arches. Cornice-band finishing off ground floor stuccowork; parapet with
coping. 1st floor cast iron geometrical pattern balcony. Cast iron area
railings with urn finials. Interior largely intact with fielded
panelling and cornices; fluted Doric pilastered screen from hall to
panelled stairwell with the usual staircase with 3 grouped balusters per
tread; the ground floor front and back rooms connected by wide opening
flanked by fluted Doric pilasters carrying entablature; etc. Part of the
Craven family's C.18 development of their Brewhouse estate, laid out by
Flitcroft.

Survey of London; Vol. XVIII.

Listing NGR: TQ3021880420

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26319814

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